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Sword Art Online

This is a long purely test post with some remaining rambling about Kirito builds. Try not to fall asleep. The shoulder strap and chest piece: AKA how the swords free hung from my back. This was my biggest pet peeve with most of the Kirito cosplay I had seen. Either there was no sword sheaths or they were connected to belts which had nothing to do with the chest strap (and were inaccurate). I also saw a few which had connected it to the chest strap but the chest strap had come out to be thick belts and/or armour instead of just another fabricRead More →

Blah blah blah <excuses>. I moved, took a few courses… and now I’m back in gear for 6 months. I’ll yammer about last year then go get my butt going on this year’s projects. My cat also passed away, which took away a lot of time from my life (you can see him trying to “help” with my sheaths a bit later on). For my SAO project I tried two different techniques for making my sheathes. The Dark Repulser, made from foamboard, received a foamboard sheath and the Elucidator, made from wood, received a worbla sheath. This post will discuss how both cases were madeRead More →

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything for here. Life is busy, life is time consuming. Enough whining from me. To build on my last post here’s my build notes for my Elucidator. This is mostly me ranting about the struggles on building my first wooden sword so you can skip some of my stupidity and/or experimentation phases. The Elucidator started as a ½ inch board of poplar. It was cut to the sizes as specified in my first sword art online post. Once the basic shape was cut I went to work on shaping the edges. At first I was doing thisRead More →

With the 2013 con season over it is time to post some tutorials/builds of my 2013 work. This will work through both of Kirito’s swords and sword cases; each was built in a different manner with different materials because I wanted to play around with materials this year. It’ll also discuss how the swords were mounted and a bit to do with the few pieces of armour Kirito has. First off, The Dark Repulser (The green sword for those that aren’t into Sword Art Online) This is foam board and a square 1” wooden dowel for a handle, the same dowel I used for Homura’sRead More →

Next project is under way. After Haseo I wanted to go back to making props wanted to experiment with working in wood. Back during my Haseo costume I made an attempt at the guns out of plywood. These did not look very good, bits of chipping and a texture I found hard to remove. I was so unhappy with these I didn’t include them in the costume and will be re-attempting then in wood (and/or maybe resin) once I become more comfortable with working in wood. My previous props had either been styrene or cardboard (See my cardboard scythe). I have begun to work on Sword ArtRead More →